Utah Education Network
Uen: 1st Grade Act. 14: Who's in Your Family
This lesson plan engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Carol A. Johnson's book, Who's in Your Family. Students will create a classroom graph with the titles of their family members afterward.
PBS
Pbs Kids: It's My Life: Family
A peek into the dynamics of family life provides useful tools to help with sibling rivalry, divorce, family vacations, and more. Listen to kids' testimonials, role play, express digital creativity, and take real-time surveys on current...
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: We Are Family, Grades 4 8
How can you introduce a unit on families with upper elementary and middle school students? This site provides lessons, activities, themes and more for accomplishing this task.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Family: Big Sister
A story about what it is like to have a big sister. Includes audio narration in 17 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Family: A Present for My Auntie
A story about a boy trying to decide what to do to show his affection for his aunt. Includes audio narration in English and Turkish.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Family: Chef's Surprise!
In this story, a young girl goes grocery shopping with her father, then they prepare a meal together for her mother. Includes audio narration in 6 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Family: Golf Buddies
A story about a young boy going golfing with his father. Includes audio readaloud feature in English, Spanish, and Turkish.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Family: The Bowling Alley
In this story, two young girls go bowling with their uncle. Includes audio narration in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Turkish, with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Family: Grandpa's Secret Potion
In this story, a boy and his grandpa prepare a 'potion' to make giant bubbles. Includes audio narration in 12 additional languages with text in English.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Somebody in My Friend's Family Died
Death is a very difficult thing to deal with for all of us. If you have a friend who has recently 0lost someone, you may be wondering how you can help. Chances are, that friend is not acting the way she/he normally does and you want to...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: My Family and Me
Instructions for making a book about family with a young child.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Up Heartbreak Hill: Factors in a Successful College Experience Lesson Plan
In this lesson from POV, students will watch four video clips that provide glimpses into the lives of two high school seniors who live in New Mexico on the Navajo reservation. They will then analyze a current issue that Native Americans...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Welcoming a New Baby Into Your Family
Having a new brother or sister can create many opportunities and challenges for you. You can show how responsible you can be by helping as much as you can. You will have to deal with all the attention that the baby receives from your...
ReachOut USA
Reach Out Usa: Communicating About Grief With Your Family and Friends
ReachOut fact sheets are written by young people for young people and edited by a mental health professional. This page offers suggestions for how to talk about a recent death with family and friends.
Other
Lucas Publishing: Today's Grandparent Magazine: Newstand
A bi-monthly Canadian magazine for people 50 years old and up. Covers a wide range of topics on aging, grandparenting, family relationships, health, etc. Past issues going back to 2011 can be downloaded in PDF format on this page.
PBS
Pbs: The Leakey Family
PBS profile of the Leakeys--Louis, Mary, Richard, and Maeve--discusses their finds at Olduvai Gorge and family relationships. Related links.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: My Family Health Portrait
Students create a personalized family health history report. The resource consists of a sample report, a family tree, and a chart of your family health history.
Other
Streetlaw: Family Law
At this website, check out an introduction to family law and several relevant online resources for further reading and research. Topics include: "Law and the American Family," "Marriage," "Legal Rights of Single People Who Live...
Math Cats
Math Cat: Fact Family Card
Everything you need to know about fact families can be found here. Discover what fact families are and learn different strategies for using them. Links included to print your own fact family cards, create a fact family house, and play a...
Pennsylvania State University
Penn State Univ.: Effects of Divorce on Views of Family
This site from the Penn State University provides reports of a study on the effects of divorce on the views of children regarding marriage and relationships.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Living With Grandparents
Parents "of the grandest sort" are sometimes people we only get to see on holidays. Maybe you spend each afternoon after school with your grandparent. Kids have all kinds of different relationships with their grandparents. Sometimes kids...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Living With a Single Parent
Can you describe the "typical American family?" What would that family look like to you? Would it resemble your family? Today, there are so many different kinds of families that it is difficult to describe a "typical" family. Families...
TES Global
Tes: First Encounters: King Lear (2012) Teacher Pack
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource from Royal Shakespeare Company focuses on teaching Shakespeare's King Lear including themes, characters and relationships, the two families, understanding the language, staging the play,...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Family Works: Family Teamwork
Here is a good take-home project for students of all ages. By talking with their families about the roles of individual members, students learn how a family's stability relies on teamwork and cooperation.
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